234154 - Unreadable string when using arabic in the URL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 105909

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, enhancement)

Description

[Isam Bayazidi]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Debian/1.5-3 StumbleUpon/1.89

In Mozilla (<=1.6) and FireFox, I can use arabic as part of the URL, for example:
<a href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/áíäßÓ">http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/áíäßÓ</a>
(Arabic Wikipedia entery about Linux)

I can use Arabic in the Href links, and I can even put Arabic in the URL address
Bar (don't try to copy and paste because of Bug #197375 ) .. But after loading
the page, the URL of the page is turned out to:
http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B3

I understand the technical reason for that. But what I am asking is a
feature/enhancment of rendering %D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B3 to be displayed
to user as arabic text. After all Arabic can be used in Hrefs, and for input in
URL, so is it possible to have it rendered to a readable form for the user ?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Darin, what do you think about this?

Comment 2

[Isam Bayazidi]

sorry .. it seems that because bugzilla here does not use a UTF-8 encoding, or
an encoding that supports arabic, the links I placed with Arabic text was not
stored or rendered right.. In sites with URF-8 Support, or any Arabic Encoding,
the link can contain arabic parts, and those parts will get translated to thier
corresponding code.

Comment 3

[Jesiah S]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105909 ***